Author : Robert J. Andreach
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 27,29 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781570036392
Beth Henley remains best known for 'Crimes of the Heart', a play that won the Pulitzer Prize and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award and later was made into a major motion picture. This introduction to the Mississippi-born playwright and her body of work presents Henley's plays as a unified whole.
Author : Beth Henley
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 36,41 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780822200055
THE STORY: Bess Johnson and Macon Hill are mail-order brides who meet while waiting for their husbands to pick them up to start life in a small town in the Wyoming Territory in the 1860s. Bess is a romantic while Macon Hill is exuberant and determi
Author : Beth Henley
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 22,71 MB
Release : 1982
Category : American drama
ISBN : 9780822202509
THE STORY: The scene is Hazlehurst, Mississippi, where the three Magrath sisters have gathered to await news of the family patriarch, their grandfather, who is living out his last hours in the local hospital. Lenny, the oldest sister, is unmarried
Author : Beth Henley
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 45,81 MB
Release : 2015-05-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0822231468
Jackson, Mississippi, 1964. When his wife kicks him out, respectable dentist Bill Perch moves into the seedy Jacksonian Motel. There, his downward spiral is punctuated by encounters with his teenage daughter, a gold-digging motel employee, a treacherous bartender, and his now-estranged wife. Revolving around the night of a murder, THE JACKSONIAN brims with suspense and dark humor and unearths the eerie tensions and madness in a town poisoned by racism.
Author : Beth Henley
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 50,3 MB
Release : 1982
Category : One-act plays
ISBN : 9780822200215
Author : Beth Henley
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 10,24 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780822215837
THE STORY: This stunning comic drama, set in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, begins the morning of Teddy Parker's debutante ball, that archetypal phenomenon in Southern culture known as a maiden's coming out. Teddy's mother, the beautiful and formidabl
Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 40,23 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1410349330
A Study Guide for Beth Henley's "Impossible Marriage," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Drama For Students for all of your research needs.
Author : Beth Henley
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 36,72 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Ballrooms
ISBN : 9780822207061
THE STORY: The place is Pigeon, Louisiana, the time Christmas 1934--at the low point of the American Depression. Reed Hooker, a compulsive gambler, has won a rundown rural dance hall in a poker game, and hopes that it will make his fortune. Assisted
Author : Beth Henley
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 11,74 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780822216971
THE STORY : The entire action of the play takes place in Kandall Kingsley's beautiful and mysterious garden. Kandall's youngest daughter, Pandora, is to be wed to Edvard Lunt, a worldly artist twice her age. Kandall does not think the match to be at
Author : Beth Henley
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 41,4 MB
Release : 1983
Category : American drama
ISBN : 9780822212171
THE STORY: The scene is a small town in Mississippi, where the family of Jamey Foster, a failed poet and would-be historian, who was kicked in the head by a cow while consorting with his mistress in a pasture, have gathered for his wake. The mourne
